50 year old female with chronic cough , off and on hemoptysis , off and on dyspnoea and wheeze.Pt is a diabetic and has had koch's 5 years ago.
What is the clinicoradiological diagnosis.?
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This is obviously a large pleural collection .Answer - Most likely cause is an endobronchial obstruction ( mass lesion)causing the lung to collapse and compensate .
In this case there was none . This was a slowly evolving , loculating tubercular empyema which developed over 6 months.